poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley 1875

invictus- latin meaning,- unconquerable, undefeated.

William Ernest Henley the 19th century poet wrote this poem in 1875.   He had tuberculosis of the bone and was very ill in the hospital when he wrote it.  I had never read it before.  It's interesting to me how poems and songs can be interpreted differently.  There is not just one meaning.  We interpret things we read, or hear, or see, or even smell, differently from each other I think depending on our own experiences in our life's.

How each of our minds 'process' things is very interesting to me.

What if your whole life as you know it stopped abruptly?  What if you had no one to take care of .  No job to go to.   No food to prepare for yourself.  No laundry to do. No where to go.

Just You, yourself, and your mind.  I think we would all have time to become different people. To see things differently.

Nelson Mandela is a very interesting person to me.